Colorado · Nonprofit
VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION
VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 172 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,658,091 to it, the largest being THE WIEGERS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($6,740,000). 94 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 172
- Grants received
- $37M
- Net assets
- $65M
What Vail Health Services Foundation does
Mission
Elevating health across our mountain communities by generating philanthropy for vail health and our nonprofit partners.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Refer to part iii, line 4c statement for description of new program service activity: fundraising for vail healthspan llc.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Vail health programs - the foundation, through its fundraising campaigns, has raised funds to support programs of its related corporation, vail health hospital, a 501(c)(3) organization, and colorado mountain medical, a disregarded entity of vail health hospital. The hospital provides community benefit to the vail valley and surrounding areas. For the operating year ended october 31, 2025 the foundation contributed $2.6m towards hospital capital equipment and $1.7m toward hospital health care programs.
$8,246,186 spentof which $4,435,324 as grants55% of program spendingEagle valley behavioral health programs - the foundation, through its fundraising campaigns, has raised funds to support programs of its related corporation, eagle valley behavioral health, a 501(c)(3) organization. This entity was established to lead the community collaboration ensuring access to superior behavioral health services for eagle county. For the operating year ended october 31, 2025 the foundation contributed $1.9m towards capital equipment and $3.7m toward behavioral health programs.
$5,651,564 spentof which $5,651,564 as grants37% of program spendingThe foundation, through its fundraising activities, raises funds to support programs of its related entity, vail healthspan llc, a wholly owned subsidiary of vail health services, the foundation's parent organization. Vail healthspan was established to advance community health through personalized, evidence-based health and wellness programs focused on prevention, health optimization, and healthy aging. The program serves individuals seeking to improve their physical, mental, and metabolic health through lifestyle-based interventions, including nutrition, exercise, health coaching, behavioral health support, and other whole-person wellness services.the program supports vail health's mission by promoting healthier communities, encouraging disease prevention, improving quality of life, and helping individuals maintain long-term health and independence. By emphasizing education, early intervention, and sustainable health behaviors, vail healthspan extends vail health's commitment to improving the health and well-being of the communities it serves.for the operating year ended october 31, 2025, the foundation contributed approximately $43k toward capital equipment and $1.1 million…
$1,211,621 spentof which $1,211,621 as grants8% of program spendingFiscal agency activity - the foundation works with partner organizations that share a similar mission of supporting overall health care in eagle county and the surrounding region. This includes the foundation acting in the capacity of a fiscal agent to facilitate fundraising efforts for certain organizations that lack internal staffing and systems to receive and process donations and event proceeds. These partner organizations include steadman philippon research institute where the foundation manages an endowment owned and directed to spri, as well as various behavioral health focused partner organizations. Funds received on behalf of these partner organizations are passed to the partner organization and are not recognized as foundation revenue on the foundation's audited financials.
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,109,371.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $42M to $56M (+33%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
99% of VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Will Cook
Director, CEO vh
Board chair
Mary Randall
Director, chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 73 funders, grant income rose $1.9M → $6.5M.
37 of 172 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $17M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Vail Clinic Inc % Vhh Accounting Department). These are real filings, and they are not money VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 172 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
35% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 36% · 2019 41% · 2020 28% · 2021 13% · 2022 26% · 2023 15% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
51% of VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 27 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 21 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,969 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 8 related entities
- Vail Clinic Inc Dba Vail Health Hospital · exempt
- Vail Health Services (Vhs) · exempt
- Vvmc Diversified Services · exempt
- Eagle Valley Mental Health · exempt
- Vail Valley Surgery Center · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION?
- VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 172 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,658,091 to it, the largest being THE WIEGERS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($6,740,000). 94 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 172 organizations giving $36,658,091 in grants to VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION, 94 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION?
- THE WIEGERS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,740,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 172 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing